...direct and indirect benefits; the pains inflicted being mainly Incidental and Indirect. Herbert Spencer. Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones; Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones. Byron — The Age of Bronze. That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. Richard...

...Death NAPOLEON. Where is he. the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild? Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones....Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones? 3434 Byron : Age of Bronze. St. 3 fTARCISSTja. Narcissus is the glory of his race ; For who does nothing...

...Napoleon, yes ! where is he ? The champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild? Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones...Whose table, — earth — whose dice were human bones ? — Byron. The cornet of a season. — Byron. The Glory and the Nothing of a name. — Byron. Fame...

...almost all of his misfortunes. The English poet Lord Byron described Napoleon as a mighty gambler, " Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones." His true titles to glory were the restoration of order in France and the innumerable creations of his...

...Napoleon : " Yes, where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild, Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones? Behold the grand result in yon lone isle." There are very few allusions to Napoleon in Moore : In a...

...fame. — YOUNG But war's a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. — COWPEB Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones. — BYBON Eg fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no...

...ENGLAND t tr Yes, where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild, Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones ? Behold the grand result, in yon lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile. BYRON. : 1 301108...

...Grandmother, st. 8. And what they dare to dream of, dare to do. LOWELL Ode at Harvard Commemoration, 1865. Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones; Whose table earth; whose dice were human bones. BYRON The Age of Bronze, st. 3. What makes life dreary is the want of motive. — GEORGE ELIOT Daniel...

...— In Congress on his Appointment as Commander-vnrChief, June 16, 1775. GAMBLING (See also CARDS) 21 . Vol. I. P. 156. 21 Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram BYRON— The Age of Brorux. St. 3. 22 The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly...

...to men who outgamed and outgeneraled the audacious Hohenzollern gambler— " Whose game was empire and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones." Here is another instance. Representative Edward J. King, of Illinois, who, with the energetic Congressmen...